📗 Libro en inglés BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME

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Sinopsis de BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME

AN ATTEMPT TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT RACE IN AMERICA, IN THE FORM OF A LETTER TO THE AUTHOR''S 14-YEAR-OLD SON

A bold and beautifully written exploration of America''s fraught racial history and its contemporary echoes that will redefine wider understanding of race and the roots of American identity.

In the 150 years since the end of the Civil War and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, the story of race and America has remained a brutally simple one, written on flesh: it is the story of the black body, exploited to create the country’s foundational wealth, violently segregated to unite a nation after a civil war, and, today, still disproportionately threatened, locked up and killed in the streets. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can America reckon with its fraught racial history?

Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’ attempt to answer those questions, presented in the form of a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his own awakening to the truth about history and race through a series of revelatory experiences: immersion in nationalist mythology as a child; engagement with history, poetry and love at Howard University; travels to Civil War battlefields and the South Side of Chicago; a journey to France that reorients his sense of the world; and pilgrimages to the homes of mothers whose children’s lives have been taken as American plunder. Taken together, these stories map a winding path towards a kind of liberation—a journey from fear and confusion, to a full and honest understanding of the world as it is.

Masterfully woven from lyrical personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me offers a powerful new framework for understanding America’s history and current crisis, and a transcendent vision for a way forward.

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Editorial: Text Publishing Co

ISBN: 9781925240702

Idioma: Inglés

Número de páginas: 166
Tiempo de lectura:
3h 22m

Encuadernación: Tapa blanda

Fecha de lanzamiento: 23/07/2015

Año de edición: 2015

Alto: 23.3 cm
Ancho: 15.5 cm

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Escrito por Ta-Nehisi Coates


Ta-Nehisi Coates es editor en la revista The Atlantic, donde escribe artículos sobre cultura, política y temas sociales. Su laborperiodística ha sido premiada en varias ocasiones. Anteriormente, había trabajado en The Village Voice, Washington City Papery Time, y había colaborado con The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly y O Magazineentre otras publicaciones. Es autor del libro de memorias The Beautiful Struggle y de Entre el mundo y yo, ganador del NationalBook Award 2015 de no ficción y en la lista de más vendidos del The New York Times desde su publicación, además de serconsiderado «uno de los diez mejores libros del año» por las publicaciones más prestigiosas.
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Jane Chanin

22/11/2020

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buenisimo - para entender la drama del problema racial en America


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